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ati-driver wont install/configure

Attempting to install the ATI driver package results in abysmal failure on BT4F. I think its expecting the older .29.x kernel, but i'm not sure. First off, it conflicts with the libgl-mesa-dev package when i try to do a simple apt-get install. Removing libgl-mesa-dev removes several other things too, which look like they may be useful for the driver:

After that the apt-get install works, but configuration of the package fails and i run the ./make as instructed by the installer and posts on the old forum (i've not run anything semi-recent on ATI hardware, i dug up my predeployment desktop to crunch WPA with an x1950):

Reading package lists... Done
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WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30.9/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:41:2: error: #error unknown or undefined architecture configured
In file included from /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:169:
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.h:164:1: warning: "PM_EVENT_SUSPEND" redefined
In file included from /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30.9/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:6,
from /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30.9/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h:13,
from include/linux/smp.h:36,
from include/linux/topology.h:33,
from include/linux/gfp.h:7,
from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:13,
from /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:91:
include/linux/pm.h:241:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:169:
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.h:598:1: warning: "pgprot_writecombine" redefined
In file included from /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:19,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:91:

The last line referencing the older kernel makes me think there's something static in the package thats not designed to work with the new .30.9 kernel. So i run the make.sh script anyway to get the following. Now i'm at a loss. Are the repos just outdated? Where should i go from here?